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Ever since as a child I read Willa Cather’s My Antonia, I’ve had a strong dislike for wolves. You might recall the bride being thrown to the wolves on her wedding night.
Read moreThanksgiving is around the corner, and across the country families are planning how to celebrate with their loved-ones in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some states across the country are imposing restrictions on Thanksgiving celebrations.
Read moreIt’s been a tough year for pretty much everybody. The global pandemic has changed our lives in ways we could not have imagined last Thanksgiving, and our celebrations may look a little different this year.
Read morewas bled to have been reelected by my colleagues to serve as the Republican whip, or assistant majority leader, the second-highest position in Senate Republican leadership.
Read moreOn Veterans Day, I spoke at the dedication of Patriot’s Plaza on the campus of the University of South Dakota.
Read moreThe threat of Chronic Waste Disease (CWD), a fatal deer and elk disease caused by an abnormal protein called a prion, appears to be further endangering our South Dakota deer population. We know almost nothing about CWD.
Read moreFrom Belle Fourche, Buffalo, and Bison to Aberdeen, Groton, Webster, and Parkston I recently had the chance to sit down with so many South Dakotans.
Read moreSome years ago, I can’t exactly remember when, it was suggested by some “foreign” radical thinkers that the Great Plains be fenced off from the rest of the country and turned into a buffalo preserve. They had western North and South Dakota in mind, as well as parts of Montana and Wyoming. As bizarre as this thinking was, there are still people who harbor such thoughts.
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